pathos is the skyward tanka

by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé

a mother swathed in muslin

scavenging, rubble

behind the sea of biscay

a burned down house on a mound

a bargain respect, absent

what was us, what was sweet home

lost to an ornery sound

shanks pressed into the pallid

how they grieve even –

in flight, there’s nothing

no coast, of drift, remembrance

so she writes because

she forgets what she puts down

rope and field of lies

rising flames, a white refrain

driftpin verse forms miscreant

as if resting on water –

a sail, ascension

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External links

Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus

Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh

Consider This And In Our Time by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
The Common Life by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
Cocaine Lil and Morphine Sue by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
Christmas Oratio by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
Carry Her Over the Water by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
Canzone by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
Calypso by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
Base Words Are Uttered by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
Autumn Song by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
August 1968 by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
Atlantis by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
As I Walked Out One Evening by W. H. Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
As We Like It by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
As the poets have mournfully sung by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
Are You There? by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
After Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics by W. H. Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
Academic Graffiti by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
A Walk After Dark by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
A New Year Greeting by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
Continual Conversation With A Silent Man by Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens

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